In case you missed it, here is World Cup sprint leader and now professional videographer Kikkan Randall’s edit of the reenactment of a historic day in US skiing. The US women advanced three skiers to the quarterfinals…

MILAN, Italy – Kikkan Randall and Jessie Diggins teamed up to finish second in the freestyle team sprint in downtown Milan. FasterSkier caught up with the pair soon after the finish for a quick video interview.

VAL DI FIEMME, Italy – FasterSkier caught up with Britain’s Andrew Musgrave for a quick interview after his efforts in the penultimate stage of the 2012 Tour de Ski. Like Norway’s Eldar Roenning, Musgrave has had some help on the Tour from his brother.

Last night, FasterSkier Editor in Chief was unsuspectingly taking a shower when the door handle to the bathroom broke, leaving him marooned inside while the remainder of the FasterSkier staff went on an unsuccessful gummy bear-hunting expedition.

After an extremely confused, non-English-speaking woman attempted to apply a screwdriver to the door, help came in the form of one of the hotel’s managers. He wielded a combination of brute force and suave wrench technique to defeat the broken lock, allowing Sabot to finally egress from bathroom without experiencing any ‘panik.’ We caught him immediately afterwards for the exclusive post-confinement interview.

Snow overnight and temperatures hovering near 0 C make for a potentially interesting day in Oberhof. The race is 10/15km classic. As of 2:00PM in Oberhof, the video is processing and will be available soon.

FasterSkier had the opportunity to tour the now-famous Norwegian wax truck. The following is a quick video showing the interior of the vehicle that serves as both transportation and the work space for up to 12 ski technicians, and follows the World Cup circuit around Europe.

The wild finish of the men’s Dusseldorf sprint video has been posted on YouTube – check it out below. Featuring Germany’s Josef Wenzl as the rowdy young upstart who can barely control his temper. Oystein Pettersen’s composure is pretty impressive.

In interviews with the German media, Wenzl didn’t seem too contrite, blaming the contact on John Kristian Dahl. Andy Newell, though, placed the blame fully on Wenzl, saying that the crash was “definitely Wenzl’s fault.” From this report on Langrenn, it sounds as if the Norwegians may have appealed the result to the race jury, but if so, nothing came of it.

FasterSkier shot some video (as usual, shaky), at the distance and sprint races at the Canmore World Cup. Check out some shots of Kris Freeman (USA) and Dario Cologna (SUI) in the distance race, Emil Joensson (SWE) and Justyna Kowalczyk (POL) skiing to dominating victories in the sprint, and a few others. The video from the sprint finals is worth watching just to see the size of the margins of victory…

FasterSkier got some videos from this morning’s action in the qualifier. A couple of interviews with Americans Simi Hamilton and Katie Ronsse, as well as some skiing, with shots of Andy Newell, Emil Joensson (SWE), Petra Majdic (SLO), and others. The clips of Ronsse and Newell are below, and the rest will be available at FasterSkier’s YouTube page within the hour, when they’re finished uploading.

Better late than never: a quick video with U.S. athletes Tad Elliot and Noah Hoffman following their distance skate races in Canmore. Also, a quick example of the media frenzy in advance of the Olympics: Ivan Babikov being interviewed by his own press attache for a Canadian TV station.